Hair curler and waver.



W. P. FREEMAN' HAIR GURLER AND WAVER.

APPLICATION FILED $113.8, 1910.

952462,- .PatntedMay 10,1910.

WITINESSESI I INVENTUR waltar Ffraemaq, M9f- 12, BY

ATTORNEYS A TE l STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WALTER F. FREEMAN, OF TOOTING, LONDON, ENGLANIL ASSIGNOR= 1'0 MERKEAMTRADING COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

HA.IR GURLER AND WAVER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

- Patented May 10, 1910.

Application filed February 8, 1910. Serial No. 542,898.

and exact description 0 the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same,reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to characters ofreference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in hair curlers andwavers; and, the said invention has reference, more particularly, to animprovement in soft resilienthair curlers and wavers of the kind whichis formed with a body-portion provided at one end with a head or bulb,and at the other end with an eyelet-portion. In this class ofhair-curlers and wavers, as heretofore constructed, considerabledifficulty has been experienced when introducing the heads or bulbs ofthe said hair curlers and wavers into the said eyelet-portion of thesame, be

cause the said head or bulb being ap proximately stiff and but slightlyyielding would resist its passage through said eyeletportion; and,furthermore, said heads or bulbs being small were ditlicult tomanipulate in the operation of passing the same through saideyelet-portion.

The present invention has for its principal object, therefore, toprovide a novel construction of hair curler and waver of the classherein set forth in which the abovementioned objections are overcome.

My invention consists in the novel hair curler and waver hereinafterfully set forth; and the invention consists, furthermore, in the severalnovel arrangements and combinations of the various parts, as well as inthe details of the construction thereof, all of which will behereinafter fully described in the following specification and thenfinally embodied in the clauses of the claim which are appended to andwhich form an essential part of this specification.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, inwhich Figure 1 is a face view of the novel constructionof hair-curlerand waver embodyingvthe princi les of nay-present invention. Fig. 2 isan ge view of the same. Fig, 3 is a central vertical longitudinalsection. of the same. Fig. 4 is a face view of a slightly modifiedconstruction .of hair-curler and waver embodying the principles of mypresent invention.

Similar characters of reference are employed in all of the herein-abovedescribed views, to indicate corresponding parts.

Referring now to Figs. 1, 2 and 3 of the accompanying drawings, there isillustrated therein a complete hair-curler and waver 1 which embodiesthe rinciples of my present invention. This sai hair-curler and waver 1comprises a body-portion 2 preferably made of a soft resilient material,such, for example, as india rubber, or the like. The said body-portion 2is thus formed into a flexible band of any desirable cross-sectionalconfiguration,- the said body-portion being preferably provided,however, with a tapering portion 3 at one of its ends. Integrally formedupon the end of said tapering portion is a head or-bulb 41-, preferablyof spherical conformation. The said. head or bulb & is further providedwith a transverse opening or perforation 5, which renders the samemore'easily compressible for the purposes to be subsequently described.Extending outwardly from said head or bulb 4 is a reduced extension orportion 6 and formed upon the free end of said extension or portion is asmall head or bulb 7, which may also be provided with a transverseopening or perforation 8. The said bodyportion 2 is further provided atits opposite end with a ring-shaped portion 9, the opening orperforation 10 of which is smaller in diameter than the diameter of saidhead or bulb 4. Arranged in said body-portion 2, at a convenient pointbetween its ends, is an elongated slot or opening 11 adapted to bespread apart to receive the end of a tress or lock of hair which is tobe wound about said body-portion to impart a curl or wave thereto.

After the tress or look of hair has been wound u on said body-portion 2,the head ration 5, so that the same ma the said ring-shaped portion 9,the said head or bulb 4 which is rendered more easily compressible byits transverse opening or perfobe more easily and uickly passed into itsholdin or buttoned relation with said ring-shape ortion 9. Thetransverse opening or peroration 8 in said small head or bulb 7 rendersthe same somewhat flexible or compressible, thereb aidinignin assuring afirm grip thereupon by the gers when buttoning the said hair-curler orwaver. A further advantage found in the perforated heads or bulbs, asabove described, lies in the .fact that they are thus made moreresilient or yieldable and therefore less objectionable when they comein contact with the head of the wearer, when reclining.

Referring now, more particularly to Fig.

4 of the sald drawings, a slightlymodified form of hair-curler or waveris provided of the same general construction as above described, exce tthat in place of the head or bulb 7 provided with the transverse o eningor perforation, a solid head orbul .12 may be formed upon the end ofsaid extension or portion 6.

I am aware that changes may be made in the several arrangements andcombinations of the various parts, as well as in the details of theconstruction thereof, without departing from the scope of my presentinvention, as set forth in the foregoing specification, and as definedin the claims which are appended thereto. Hence, I do not limit mylnvention to the exact arrangements and combinations of the variousparts as herein shown and described, nor do I confine myself to theexact details of the construction thereof, except as defined by thescope of the appended claims.

I claim As a new article of manufacture, a hair-curler and wavercomprising a flexible bod -portion, a ring-shaped member atone end 0said body-portion, a head or'bulb at the other end of said body-portion,said head or bulb being provided with a transverse opening or hole, anda ull-piece or ext-ens1on extending outwar y from said head or bulb.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a

hair-curler and waver comprising a body-- portion of soft rubberprovlded with a slot or opening adapted to receive a tress or lock ofhair, a ring-shaped member integrally connected with one end of saidbody-portion, ahead or bulb integrally connected with the other end ofsaid body-portion, said head or bulbbeing provided with a transverseopening or hole adapted to render said head or bulb more easilycompressible, and a pull-piece or extension integrally connected withsaid head or bulb, said pullpiece or extension being provided with asmall head or bulb of smaller diameter than the opening of saidringshaped member.

In testimony, that I claim the invention set forth above I have hereuntoset my hand this 17 day of J anuar 1910.

F. FREEMAN. Witnesses:

M. J. Mnasrmns, E. PARNELL.

